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How will climate change rock your world? Gloucester students find out. Ninth-grade Earth science students at Gloucester High School just wrapped up a field experience as part of a new pilot program called Climate Education for a Changing Bay (CECB). The program is offered by the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia at the Virginia institute of Marine Science. What students come away with, said education specialist Jaclyn Beck, is a better grasp of the “long-term social, economic and environmental impacts” as well as “improved community understanding, increase in stewardship and reduced human impact on the bay.” According to VIMS, the...

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How will climate change rock your world? Gloucester students find out.
Ninth-grade Earth science students at Gloucester High School just wrapped up a field experience as part of a new pilot program called Climate Education for a Changing Bay (CECB)....

When Hurricane Isabel struck Hampton Roads in 2003, flooding at Jamestown damaged nearly a million artifacts and submerged the remains of a 400-year-old furnace.
Jamestown Island proper and the archaeological dig at its historic fort, built by the...

The Obama administration proposed new rules Thursday for how federal agencies should apply one of the nation's signature environmental laws, a move that could affect construction of new coal-fired power plants and other government-approved projects that...

When a team of researchers from the University of Delaware traveled to Africa two years ago to search for exemplary chickens, they weren't looking for plump thighs or delicious eggs.
They were seeking out birds that could survive a hotter planet.
The...

The warming of Earth, with human consumption of fossil fuels as the main cause, will have severe consequences for every region of the United States, according to the Third National Climate Assessment released Tuesday morning by the Obama...

Climate change is expected to bring more severe weather, increased crop yields and a longer Great Lakes shipping season to Illinois and the Midwest, the White House said Tuesday in its report on global warming.
The report, which called out the region for...

When you know where to look, there is so much to see in Venice, Italy. Stepping ashore after a boat ride from the airport, I noticed everything seemed particularly vivid in this beautifully decrepit cityscape: pilings rotten at the water line; a funeral...

It's ragweed season, and for people with this pollen allergy, that means miserable symptoms such as sneezing, a runny or stuffy nose, trouble sleeping, asthma attacks, and itchy skin, eyes, nose, or throat. The season usually kicks into high gear in...

"Science has become much less cool," journalist Chris Mooney writes in his new book, "Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future" (July 2009, Basic Books). Mooney, author of the bestseller "The Republican...

FT. MCMURRAY, Canada—From here in the far north of Canada through a web of transcontinental pipelines down to a network of refineries ringing the Chicago area, a new supply of precious oil has begun flowing into the gas tanks of more Americans, tapped...

BONN, Germany (AP) — For environmental activists, the message was clear: Earth Hour was a huge success.
Now they say nations have a mandate to tackle climate change.
"The world said yes to climate action, now governments must follow," the...

President Obama will attend the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month, according to a senior administration official, a sign of the president's increasing confidence that the talks will yield a meaningful agreement to reduce...

UC Irvine researchers have linked an increased precipitation and fresh-water flow into oceans to global warming, according to a study released Monday.Using NASA and other world-scale satellite observations, researchers tracked total monthly water volume...

There's a Calvinist streak marbling the fat of any good American eater: One hand giveth and the other taketh away. I should. I shouldn't. Pleasure and pain. I want it but I shouldn't have it. This is a good time to reflect on just how American our...